Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-01-26
WHAT KILLSAMERlCANS.
East rLiving-Recklsss Eatiug-HeFd Drinks
ins-Poor 6leepinG-SOcial Jealousy.
Political lAmsidon-vioIent Passions
The Race for Money.

East stLivtng-Recklsas Eatiug-Hcrd Drinks
ing-Poor sleepinG-SociaI Jealousy.
Political Amsition-violeut Passions
The Race for Money.
The alarming disease OF this
country is nervous debility and
prostration. 1t goes under
many names but it is essen.
tally the same complaint.
Hospitals and private institu.
tions for nervous patients are
crowded. The average of life
in the United States is de.
creasing every year. Sudden
deaths from nervous collapse
among our business, profess
ional and public men are so
frequent as scarcely to excite
remark. The majority of sui
cides, committed without ap-
parent reason, or under so-called
"depression of spirits" are
really prompted by nervous
prostration, which is a fruitful
source of insanity and crime
with all their grief and horror.
These facts are startling.
They threaten the very life Of
the nation. They assail the
springs OF it's power and pros
perity. They wreck manhood's
strength and wonlan's useful
ness and beauty.
Every one should know the
causes. What are they2 The
answer is easy and terribly
plain: Our vicious personal
habits; our careless and lawless
eating and drinking; the in
tense mental ana physical strain
arising from Our mad race after
money, pos.tiois and influence;
the fears ana struggles Of pow
erty; the use of narcotics and
stimulants; our fashion of
turning day into night and
night into day; and, briefly,
our desperate willingness to
pay any price for an hours
pleasure or success. So we
burn life's candle at both ends
and fill the lunatic asylums
and the graveyerds.
The disease from which we
suffer and die IS, in plain Eng
lish, Nerro':s dyspepsia, as it
is seated in H.. Nerves and in
the organs o. !>'-estion, Assim-
ilation and \ ,...l...on. Healthy
digestion h. liz ilnpe.iad or des-
troyed, tie wnole body, nerves
included, Is literally starred;
even when there Is no enact
alton to tell the sad story.
Nervous prostration sends
out its warnings headache
in the morning; persistent
dull heaviness OF aching at the
base of the brain; 77s-akefulness;
loss of appetite az tiisgust with
food; loss Of ule::ra'i energy and
interest in ordinary duties and
business; restlessness and anx-
iety without any assignable
reason; eructations; bad
breath; foul MUCOUS on the
teeth; occasional giddiness;
palpitation of the heart; sal
lowness Of the skin; coated
tongue and gradual failure of
strength and ambition
The remedy is a total aban-
donment of the habits and GUS
toms which cause the disease
in each individual case, and the
use Of Shaker E1tract Of Roots
(Seigel's Syrup to cure the
mischief already done. This
great remedy. prepared bv the
Shaker Community Of Mt. Leb-
anon, N. Y, is especially adapt
ed to eradicate Nervous Dys-
pepsia. To do this it acts
directly and gently but power
fully upon the disordered stom-
ach, liver and kidneys, restor-
ing their tone and vigor, pro-
noting the secretion Of bile, ex-
pelling waste matters from the
system, and pulify fying the blood.
Upon the nervous system
Shaker Eatycctlse seigeps Syrup
acts as a safe and wholesome
anodyne without the slightest
narcotic effect, and then leaves
the nerves to regain their nat
ural tone and strength through
its wonderful influence upon
the function Of nutrition.
1t is safe to say more nerv-
GUS dyspeptics have been re-
stored by it from the depths
of misery to a fresh enjoyment
of life and labor than by any
or all other forms of treatment
combined.